Daily Birthdays and Events in Sci-Fi, Comics and related areas

March 30, 2011

Quasar, Species, War of the Worlds, Serenity, Batman, Babylon 5, Gorath, Gemini Man, The Addams Family, Dick Tracy, Aliens, Pink and the Brain.

When I worked for a golden and silver age seller back in the late 80's one of my favorite things was to sort and catalog the Sunday pages that came in. One in particular was the Buck Rogers strips that began on this day in 1930.


Enjoy !!!



Birthdays

Greg Capullo 1962, comic book artist and penciller, best known for his work on Quasar (1991-1992), X-Force (1992-1993), Angela (1994) and Spawn (1993-1999, 2003-2004).
Helena Mattsson 1984, actress, Miranda Hollander - Species: The Awakening (2007) (V), JJ - Surrogates (2009), Rebecca - Iron Man 2 (2010).
Stephen Gevedon 1966, actor, Klingon #1 - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1 episode, "Crossover", 1994), Neighbor with Lawnmower - War of the Worlds (2005).
Marley S. McClean 1987, actress, Mezoti - Star Trek: Voyager (5 episodes, 2000), Girl Student - Serenity (2005).
Herbert Anderson 1917, actor, Henry Mitchell - Dennis The Menace (146 episodes, 1959-1963), Harry Hummert / Racing Secretary - Batman (2 episodes, "The Clock King's Crazy Crimes", "A Horse of Another Color", 1966-1967).
Turhan Bey 1922, actor, Dimitri Rossovich - SeaQuest DSV (1 episode, "Treasure of the Mind", 1993), Centauri Emperor / Turval - Babylon 5 (2 episodes, "The Coming of Shadows, ", "Learning Curve", 1995-1998).
Kan Ishii 1921, composer, wrote orchestral and vocal music for film and stage, including music for the science-fiction film Gorath.
Richard Dysart 1929, actor, Leonard Driscoll - Gemini Man (1976) (TV), Secretary of Defense - Meteor (1979), Dr. Copper - The Thing (1982), Barbed-Wire Salesman - Back to the Future Part III (1990), Dr. Bartholomew - Batman: The Animated Series (2 episodes, 1992-1994), Cogliostro - Spawn (18 episodes, 1997-1999), Cogliostro - Spawn 3: Ultimate Battle (1999) (V) (voice).
John Astin 1930, actor, Charlie - The Twilight Zone (1 episode, "A Hundred Yards over the Rim", 1961), Gomez Addams - The Addams Family (64 episodes, 1964-1966), The Riddler - Batman (2 episodes, "Batman's Anniverary", "The Riddling Controversy", 1967), Akin - Otherworld (1 episode, "Mansion of the Beast", 1985), Buddy Ryan - Night Court (10 episodes, 1984-1990), Neville Nessen - They Came From Outer Space (1 episode, "Sex, Lies & UFOs: Part 2", 1991), Bull Gator - Taz-Mania (1 episode, "The Dog The Turtle Story", 1991), Dr. Putrid T Gangreen - Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (21 episodes, 1990-1991), Gomez Addams - The Addams Family (21 episodes, 1992-1993)(voice), The Mole - Disney's Bonkers (1 episode, "Stressed To Kill", 1994), Terry Duke Tetzloff - Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man (5 episodes, 1994-1997), Grover Whalen - Pinky and The Brain", (1 episode, 1997), Grampapa Addams - The New Addams Family (2 episodes, 1998-1999), The Great Bangaboo - the Wild Thornberrys (1 episode, 1999), Supt. Skinner / Hank the Janitor - Recess (3 episodes, 1998-1999).
Warren Beatty 1937, actor, Harry Grayson - Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond (1 episode, "The Visitor", 1960), Dick Tracy - Dick Tracy (1990).
Paul Reiser 1957, actor, Carter Burke - Aliens (1986).
Ian Ziering 1964, actor, Vinnie - Biker Mice From Mars (65 episodes, 1993-1996), Wildwing - Mighty Ducks (3 episodes, 1996), Wildwing - Mighty Ducks the Movie: The First Face-Off (1997) (V) (voice), Mason Forrest - Batman Beyond (1 episode, 1999), Harry Osborn - Spiderman: The New Animated Series (13 episodes, 2003), Chase Huffington - Drawn Together (1 episode, 2007), Vinnie / Brie Fish - Biker Mice from Mars (24 episodes, 2006-2007).
Juliet Landau 1965, actress, Tala / Zatanna Zatara / Rama Kushna - Justice League (7 episodes, 2005-2006), Labella - Green Lantern: First Flight (2009) (V) (voice), Helen/Tini/Natalie/Anodite Verdona - Ben 10: Alien Force (5 episodes, 2008-2010).
John Sanford 1968, creator of the webcomic "Chippy and Loopus". Currently a story artist at Dreamworks.
Maurice LaMarche 1958, actor/voice actor, best known for his voicework in Futurama as Kif Kroker, as Egon Spengler in The Real Ghostbusters, Verminous Skumm and Duke Nukum in Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Big Bob Pataki in Hey Arnold!, and The Brain in Animaniacs/Pinky and The Brain. LaMarche's first entrance into the voiceover industry was in 1980 in Easter Fever and Take Me Up to the Ball Game, two Canadian films from Nelvana. LaMarche began on Inspector Gadget and went on to Dennis the Menace, Popeye and Son and The Real Ghostbusters. After The Real Ghostbusters, LaMarche became a regular mainstay of the voiceover industry appearing in such shows as Talespin, Tiny Toon Adventures, GI Joe, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: The Animated Series, Taz-Mania, Where's Waldo, The Little Mermaid, Batman: The Animated Series, and Bonkers before landing perhaps his most recognized role in 1993 as The Brain on Animaniacs (and later its spin-off show Pinky and the Brain). Following this, LaMarche worked on The Critic, Freakazoid!, and The Tick before then reprising his role of Egon in Extreme Ghostbusters. The stretch of two years after this saw LaMarche portray characters in such shows as Duckman, Hey Arnold! as Big Bob Pataki, Queer Duck, King of the Hill, The Chimp Channel, and Sonic Underground as Sleet. It was at this time, 1999, that LaMarche began work on Futurama. Since Futurama LaMarche has continued to work steadily in television, including guest roles on The Simpsons (where he once again parodied Orson Welles). His most recent regular role came as Hovis the butler on the Nickelodeon series Catscratch. LaMarche has done various voice work for many Warner Bros. Animation and DiC Entertainment cartoons. He also delivered the protracted belches for the "Great Wakkorotti" shorts on Animaniacs, in which Wakko Warner performed various pieces of music. In 2010, LaMarche will reprise his role as Yosemite Sam in Cartoon Network's upcoming series, "The Looney Tunes Show.


Events

1930, Buck Rogers Sunday strip begins.
1967, Star Trek:TOS "The Alternative Factor" airs.
1979, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century pilot film opened in cinemas
1992, Star Trek:TNG "The First Duty" airs.
1993, Nervala IV cave scenes are filmed for TNG: "Second Chances"
1995, Star Trek Monthly issue 2 is released.
2001, Invader Zim airs on Nickelodeon.

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